Word Meanings - FUTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. Talkers and futile persons. Bacon. 2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His

Additional info about word: FUTILE

loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. Talkers and futile persons. Bacon. 2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUTILE)

• Puerile
• Childish
• boyish
• infantile
• youthful
• nonsensical
• futile
• nugatory
• weak
• silly
• trifling

Related words: (words related to FUTILE)

• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• FUTILELY
  In a futile manner.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• NUGATORY
  1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• FUTILE
  loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. Talkers and futile persons. Bacon. 2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His
• YOUTHFUL
  Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
• SILLY
  sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
• INFANTILE
  Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
• BOYISHLY
  In a boyish manner; like a boy.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• PUERILENESS
  The quality of being puerile; puerility.
• PUERILE
  Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey. Syn. -- Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak.
• PUERILELY
  In a puerile manner; childishly.
• UNSILLY
  See UNSELY